The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-17

away, land steel rails were carried
quarter OF a mile down the river ant
scattered for miles down the stream.
Washouts are also reported all alonl
the road to Yuma. Two large bridge
have been destroyed, and broken dow
telegraph wires are, in some places
buried ten feet In the sand.
An express train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad became unmanage
able neal Rodamer's Station, Yves
Virginia, on the afternoon OF the 10th
and dashed down a steep grade until
bridge was reached, when the engine
tender and two baggage cars plunged
into a rayine one hundred feet deep
q. w. Cooper, brakeman, was killed,
A number of passengers were injured,
none fatally.
john Gilmore, a switchman on the
Chicago, Milwaukee ana st. Paul Rail
road, was killed on the morni ng of the
18th, in Chicago while switching
cars.
"A fatal disease is spreading among
the cattle in the vicinity Of Blue ISL
and, Illinois. The symptoms are said
to be similar to those or Texas Fever.
1t is claimed that the disease was cal.
ried from the stock yards.
Mrs. Henry Sell, while riding in a
wagon to a funeral In Mortified, neal
| Chicago, on the afternoon of the 18th
was shot dead by a stray bullet, from
one of a party of picknickers firing at
a mark. The blunderer who fired the
shot was Frank RinkeIberger, but the
whole party-six men and four women
were arrested. A despatch FROM
| Great harrington, Massachusetts, says
William ii. Oles and George Plnney
were going hunting in Monterey, on
the morning of the 1lth. In taking a
shotgun from their wagon both barrels
we're discharged, blowing of Ole's head
and Pinney's right arm.
DIR. Borcheim, a physician with
! an extensive practice in Atlanta,
Georgia, committed suicide on the 18th.
The cocaine habit is supposed to have
been the cause.
j. c. Harris was shot twice in the
head at Cambridge, Ohio, on the 10th.
With two bullets in his brain he stag
| gered to the depot and boarded a train
for Caldwell, several miles sonth,
which place he reached in an exhausted
condition. Harris says a young woman
| named Louise Morrison did the shoot
ing. because he would not marry her.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th
Benjamin Daily was fatally stabbed on
East Water Street, in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Frank Edwards and John
Lufky were arrested, the former being
charged with doing the stabblng.
News reached Austin, Texas, Cd
the 10th, that at Mahchaca, fifteen
miles from that city, officers had sur
rounded and attacked a gang of tram
robbers, and were lighting with them.
One of the gang was killed and two
were wounded; a deputy sheriff wa
also wounded. W4aAam McCausland,
buying cattle nea'omoA snsville, Penna.,
-s dns nhPides II + lLso = m @atlS gtG Of
snS ny! y: = Ah Is Ga1 anaa n tas the tns
body. John EcRsr, &SduHg man. liv.
ing neal Jonesboro, Illinois, was found
dead by the side OF the railroad on the
10th. He had been shot twice, and his
watch and money were gone. 1t is
supposed he vas murdered by tramps.
The Atlantic express on the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail
road, while running 40 miles per hour,
on the afternoon of the 18th, collided
with a locomotive that was standing
on the track at Peoria, Ohio. Norman
G,ago, .N,rfnnnr Af tho naaOaprrar train
was instantly killed. and his fireman
had both arms broken. John Haley,
engineer of the single locomotive, was
fatally injured. No passengers were
hurt. Both locomotives were CON-
pletely demolished, and the track was
torn up for some distance. a passen-
ger and freight train collided on a
trestle on the Pan Handle Railroad at
Benwood, West Virginia, on the 18th.
Five freight cars went over the ~trestle,
and John Braddock, a brakeman, was
injured. Subsequently the engine as
sisting to remove the wreck started to
Wheeling, but encountered a cow at q
trestle and was thrown into a train OF
freight cars on a siding, and blocked
the road By tearing up the trestle
work.
john and Henry Gunst, timers.
fell from the roof of a three-story
building in Pittsburg, on the 18th.
In the descent Henry struck a sharp
stick which penetrated his brain, kill.
ing him instantly. John was badly IN
jured. They were repairing a rain
pipe, when II slipped, and IN trying
to save HIM the other lost his balance.
The State Department is informed
by our Consul at Plctou that "a dam
gerous and contagious disease" exists
among the cattle, horses aud sheep in
Nova Scotia, (which threatens the
whole of Canada and may spread to the
United States.n Our customs officers
on the Northeastern frontier have been
ordered to refuse entry into the United
States of animals and birds from Nova
Scotia.
An attempt was made on the nth
to wreck a train on the Chicago, Kan
sas ami Nebraska Railroad, at Sanford,
six miles from Topeka, Kansas, by
opening a switch. The engine ran into
some empty cars standing on the track,
and a number were wrecked. No lives
were lost and none OF the passengers
weSs injured.
.lQiek Koch, 10 years old, went
to his home in New York drunk on the
evening of the 18th. After an unsuc-
cessful attempt to stab his mother with
a pair of SCISSORS, he drove them into
his own abdomen, nearly disembowel-
ling himself
John NJ. Carroll, City Treasurer OF
Staunton. Virginia, who disappeared
two years ago, owing the city ove
$40, 900. has returned. During his alb
sence his property realized enough to
a his Indebtedness.
The roof of the Jewish Synagogue,
on Judd street, Chicago, cayed in on
the morning of the 18th, burying a
number of worku-sn who we're repair
ing the building. Two men were
fatally, and two severely, injured,
Three large sheds in New Orleans fell
on the evening Of the 18th, burying a
number of people. Two persons Jlere
killed and a number injured. The
ahada ware rpcAntlv ~Durchastsu by the